The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-01
NO BAR TO NOMINEES ON OTHER
TICKET.
ing Continued until After Midnight Attempt
to Reconsider the Ticket.

ih- hdii. HlcitbiiiiS Il isiiSr ann Hit'hiSth'
element of the colored people. From
the opening of the convention To the
close Of the canvass of the ballot the
meeting was very orderly for 80 large a
crowd, but when the result made
known Babel broke loose. But more of
that later.
DIR. A. l.. Cole. chairman of the Mon
day night caucus meeting. called the
convention to order, when Mr.. L. j. Ap-
pleyard. secretary. read the proceedings
of the previous meeting. which were
adopted.
On motion was Dr. Cole elected perma-
nent chairman and T. j. Appleyard sec
retary.
DIR. Cole, in accepting the position of
chairman, said
''GENTLEMEN AND FEIIDw-t tTTIZENS-
l am very thankful for the honor you
have imposed on me this evening. and
respectfully ask your cooperation and
help. | shall do all in my power to carry
this meeting honestly and in an
upright manner. for We must have legal
balloting.
Gentlemen. III order to place before
the citizens of Palatka a choice for the
officers to be elected. it is necessary that
two candidates be nominated for the
office of Mayor and other offices. And
now, fellow-citizens, let me beg of you
to abide by all the rules that may be
made in this meeting tonight. Ii there
are any persons present who took part
in the Republican Convention | beg of
yea to- withhold your votes. do not
think il is right for you to vote in this
meeting when it is in direct opposition
To your party. And now, fellow-citizens.
respectfully request your hearty sup
port in this meeting.
RULES FOR THE CONVENTION
The secretary read the following re-
port of the committee appointed at the
Monday night meeting. which. ON
motion, was adopted:
Report of the committee appointed to
draw up resolutions for the conduct of II
convention to elect "a ticket to b,. called
the Peoples Ticket.
Your committee would respectfully
submit the following:
pated in any convention opps~ei tn the
nominees of this convention he allowed
to vote in this convention.
''ResOired, That nominations be- re-
ceived for all the positions to be filled be-
fore any voting be- allowed. That the vot-
ing be done by written ballot on the
printed blanks prepared. That each bal
lot state each officer the. voter wishes to
be- nominated.
'Resoired. That the voters go up one
at II time and place their ballots in the
box.
''ReSoired, That any one may chal-
lenge the vote of any person who voted
at any convention opposed to this.
''Suggestion-That there he three per-
SONS appointed to conduct the voting,
who shall act ~ tellers.
On motion the following resolution
sent in by MIR. G.. I. Avery. was adopted:
''Resoired. That this convention con-
duct its entire proceedings ON u non-po-
litical platform, and in the end make
nominations irrespective of party affilia-
tion. which action will tend to wipe. out
the slightest taint of politics in our city
affairs, Then will the Gem City's colors
he raised instead of lowered. BY
strict regard for morality. and making
just and equitable laws, equal Justice
will be done to high and low rich and
poor, and honest labor especially. will be-
respected. The way to- stamp out fraud
~ to cease to- recognize il.
+. X. Griffin offered a revolution that
none of the nominees of the Republican
Convention he submitted for considera-
tion in this. which was carried. On
motion of &. &. Cochran. the motion
was reconsidere,l and lost. and the
nominations were thrown open /" all
THE NOMINATIONS.
The preliminary work being done. the
nominations were declared in order,
when the names of j. z. Baldwin. John
I. Gay, +. DeWeston and W. II. Husson
were presented for Mayor. Mr.. Baldwin.
in Il graceful manner. declined To allow
the use of his name, because he was
satisfied that the people would not har-
monize with him as a candidate.
j. \. Hawkins. VIM. III. Parker. NJ
Loeb and r. ID. Ackerman were nonii-
mated for Aldermen.
|. l.. Purcell. f.. e.. Post and Cook
Carelton, were nominated for Clerk.
Nlr. Benj. Deal was thu. only nominee
for Assessor
r.. =. Neck, 4. f.. Stokes j. f.. Lucas,
r. &. blanchard and Robt. Cairnes. were
the nominees for Collector
For the office of Treasurer. W. r.
Ransom and Henis Petermann were. put
in nomination.
=. j. Manucy, 4. j. Perry and \. y.
DOYLE. were the nominees for Marshal
This closed the nominations. and after
a sufficient time had been given for the
preparations of the ballots. the voting
began, and was conducted i'm an ORDERLY
manner but few of the voters being
challenged
On motion, +. y. Narvick. George W
Lansing. W. =. Geter and r. +. Griffin
were appointed tellers who received and
counted the votes. W L. Diggins
acted as clerk. 1t took nearly two hours
to count the ballots. ami the result WAS
as follows.
John +. Cav ..... IA
W. NJ. Husson ~.
r. DeWeston. ..-.. 10
A. V. Mount. ....-.- *;
foR ALDERMEN
p. ID. Ackerman ---....-. Is-
J. A. Hawkins "a. ~.